paletteer: ggplot2-scales-continuous – R documentation

Become an expert in R — Interactive courses, Cheat Sheets, certificates and more!

ggplot2-scales-continuous

Continuous scales to use for ggplot2

Description

These functions provide the option to use continuous palettes along with the ggplot2 package. It goes without saying that it requires ggplot2 to work.

Usage

scale_colour_paletteer_c(palette, direction = 1, ...)

scale_color_paletteer_c(palette, direction = 1, ...)

scale_fill_paletteer_c(palette, direction = 1, ...)

Arguments

`palette`	Name of palette as a string. Must be on the form packagename::palettename.
`direction`	Either `1` or `-1`. If `-1` the palette will be reversed.
`...`	Arguments to pass on to `ggplot2::scale_colour_gradientn()` or `ggplot2::scale_fill_gradientn()`

Details

Available package/palette combinations are available in the data.frame palettes_c_names.

Value

A ScaleContinuous object that can be added to a ggplot object

Examples

if (require('ggplot2')) {

  ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Length, y = Sepal.Width, colour = Petal.Length)) +
    geom_point() +
    scale_colour_paletteer_c("scico::tokyo")
}

paletteer

Comprehensive Collection of Color Palettes

v1.3.0

GPL-3

Authors

See AUTHORS file.

Initial release